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[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@FrailSkeleton I had a 1/2 whippet who could take down rabbits and even birds in her youth. Some people find that icky but I think it's great if you have a vegetable garden.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@revenant_MMXX >refried beans but no rice

Actual Mexicans eat better than this.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@TheRealKitty019 This idea offends people but it's spot on. When I go to craft, comic book, or hobby (like model rockets, etc.) stores, it's just me, dudes, and maybe dads. Even when it's a local fabric store, it's me and grandmas. It seems to be both a gender and generational thing.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@xwanyex It would be easier to convince many people that life in prison is better than execution IF there weren't crazed left-wing groups doing everything in their power to free recurrent extreme-violent criminals.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@Voyenik "Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven." 🙏💛

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@uncle_deluge You become desensitized over time.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

He had two plays: taking it to the grave or "I'm getting a bit tired of olives. I want to branch out and try some new things." After 30 years, there is no third option.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

Go to daily mass and you'll meet at least a dozen at each parish.

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

If conservatives are so sure being a tradwife is what makes women happiest, then why are they hiding the middle aged tradwife? Why not show young women what their life would look like 20 yrs from now?

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@holyhomemaking You could craft a form email to send to all of them that asks about their maternity packages and pricing to see if your general vision lines up, then keep it vague with anyone you decline. Imo if they wanted to cut down on people declining, they'd be up front in the first place.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@raynefq This was fun to do when tickets were $5 and it was a chill place with reasonably-priced drinks, but now the tickets alone are over $20 with fees.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@eigenrobot The more unmarried, childless, and chronically online educators become, the worse this will all get. This would be painfully obvious at any other time in history. If anything, removing it will force parents who assume "the school has it handled" to not be asleep at the wheel.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@allie__voss I have a bigger one that's heavy and a pain to wash, so I have the dishwasher do it, lol.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@Babygravy9 They didn't even bother to switch out "[our loved one]" for the poor guy's actual name.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@SCHIZO_FREQ Imodium can prevent that hospital visit.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@JimmyTraina The majority of urgent cares I've been to have branched out into things like sports physicals for people who don't have primary care doctors but need those non-regular services.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@yacineMTB The more confusing part is why they think this would necessitate pumping out putrid sludge water as if it's a secret 24/7 fracking operation running under the buildings. Nothing will change their minds, though, so why bother?

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@revenant_MMXX On top of that, even when most people are able to strategically build up savings, life emergencies that pop up (eg. car troubles) now cost thousands instead of hundreds. That eats away at it pretty quickly, which slows the whole process.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@LindaVanZandt1 @WalPerMott @9mmsmg The tipped minimum wage for waiting tables is quite literally still $2.15/hr in tons of places all over the United States.

[Lynn @sunshineandsit]

@VinoNStrosGal A shower chair (with handles!) and grab bars is a must. I repeat this endlessly to anyone I think would benefit from them. They're not just for when you can't take a shower without them, they're for when it would help even a moderate amount! I get half my day back.

[Trevor Tomesh ☕ @realDrTT]

I spoke to the Suburban Republican Women Club yesterday in Glendale, WI.

I opened my talk with a small anecdote with huge implications.

When I arrived at my motel the night before, I went to check the nightstand to see what was written in the Bible left by the Gideons. I've sometimes found beautiful, inspirational, and plain interesting things written in them by previous guests.

Unfortunately, upon opening the drawer, I didn't find a Gideon's Bible — nor any other version of the Word for that matter. Instead, I found a disintegrating Reader's Digest.

It may seem like a small thing, but the significance of this gesture — replacing the Word of God with a generic collection of pop literature — cannot be overstated.

Even if you aren't a believer, I hope that you can appreciate this; those Bibles save lives.

Motel rooms are liminal spaces for wayward souls — they are private, anonymous, transient spaces where loneliness, temptation, addiction, exploitation, and despair often converge. That is precisely why organizations like the Gideons saw the hotel nightstand as a strategic place for Scripture: a Bible placed there might reach someone at a moment of crisis when no pastor, friend, or family member is present.

There was a time when you could walk into almost any hotel room in America, pull open the nightstand drawer, and find The Word of God waiting for you. It is the same still small voice that Elijah heard; exhausted, afraid, and hiding in a cave after fleeing from Queen Jezebel.

“What are you doing here, Elijah?” (1 Kings 19:11-13)

Maybe this was an innocent oversight. Maybe this was an attempt to avoid offending someone. Regardless of intent, it is a symptom of a certain dangerous societal rot. John Adams himself warned: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

We are in trouble.

I proceeded to use this as an opening to my own story — a former socialist atheist turned conservative Catholic. I spoke for nearly an hour about my personal "journey" (for lack of a better phrase) and how thoroughly lost I was, unmoored from the spiritual foundation of our civilization.

I explained that each semester I ask my ethics students to complete an activity where they are made to reflect on their own personal set of values. It has become painfully evident to me that most people no longer have an integrated underlying personal philosophy. Rather than being disciples of a coherent moral narrative, many people have elected to become mere collages of unrelated (and often conflicting) causes.

I call these "button beliefs," as they often manifest themselves in the form of pinback buttons; the same sort that are often associated with political campaigns. The juxtaposition of Palestinian flag pins next to a Progress Pride flag button on a student's backpack is the perfect illustration of precisely how these sorts of button beliefs lend to a certain profound cognitive dissonance.

The structure of belief, once the subject of great intellectual and theological meditation and study, has been reduced to kitschy collector's items that can be mixed and matched and traded like accessories — because that's literally what they are.

Unfortunately, when the storms of life do eventually roll in, there is no foundation to retreat to when one's entire life philosophy is an amalgam of shallow ideas made to feel coherent because they were once next to each other on some damned yard sign.

"In this house we believe...
<spins the wheel>
🌸 Public health is the heart of a nation. 🌸
<spins the wheel>
🦅 Nobody is illegal on stolen land. 🦅
<spins the wheel>
🎨 Art is a weapon in the fight for the future. 🎨
..."

You get the idea.

This is what happens when we abandon the solid foundation upon which our great civilizations were built. The void has to be filled by something. Unfortunately, that something will never be able to replace that which is coherent, structured, tested, and true.

The result, of course, is anxiety, depression, and ultimately, nihilism.

Of course, there is a cure — and that cure is ultimately the hope that was purchased for us through Christ's work on the cross.

Ultimately, after recounting my conversion story and my worries for today's youth, I concluded with that message of hope. Our younger generations, in particular, Generation Z, are absolutely thirsting for something that goes beyond the kitschy amalgam of accessory beliefs. They want something real. They want something with substance. They want something that will carry them through the storms, the trials, and tribulations of life. We have an opportunity to provide it to them. Let's not waste that opportunity.